Former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden is once again the winningest football coach in Division I history — and he finds no joy in that.

Joe Paterno was the runaway leader with 409 until yesterday, when NCAA president Mark Emmert stripped the Penn State coach of 111 wins dating back to 1998. That was the first year Penn State ignored hard evidence that defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was a pedophile.

“Nobody would want to have a title given to him this way,” Bowden said in a statement. “No sanctions, no amount of money, and no penalties could ever repay or repair the damage done to those young boys. I just hate the way all of this has happened.’’

Bowden and Paterno and their wives were longtime friends after meeting on a trip. Paterno defended Bowden when Bowden was stripped of 12 wins for NCAA violations.

“Nothing that has transpired today has changed what our teams accomplished over the years one bit,’’ said Bowden. “All of this attention and focus should be on the innocent victims of this tragedy.”